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Disable a Sharing Policy

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Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

Although you can't remove a sharing policy until all the users who are provisioned to use the policy have the sharing policy setting removed from their mailboxes, you can disable the policy. When you disable a sharing policy, users who are provisioned to use the sharing policy won't be able to view or share calendar and contact information with the external domains specified in the policy.

Note

When the sharing policy is disabled, users provisioned to use the policy will continue to share information until the Sharing Policy Assistant runs. To specify how often the Sharing Policy Assistant runs, use the Set-MailboxServer cmdlet with the SharingPolicySchedule parameter.

Looking for other management tasks related to sharing policies? Check out Managing Federated Sharing.

Use the EMC to disable a sharing policy

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Sharing policies" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

  1. In the console tree, navigate to Organization Configuration > Mailbox.
  2. In the result pane, click the Sharing Policies tab, and then select the sharing policy you want to disable.
  3. In the action pane, click Properties.
  4. On the General tab, clear the Enable sharing policy check box.
  5. Click Apply to disable the sharing policy.

Use the Shell to disable a sharing policy

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Sharing policies" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

This example disables the sharing policy Fabrikam.

Set-SharingPolicy -Identity "Fabrikam" -Enabled $False